Recipients of this award are selected each year by the Editorial Board. The award receives generous support from the Max Kade Foundation.
2012
Jonathan Wipplinger, North Carolina State University
"The Racial Ruse: On Blackness and Blackface Comedy in fin-de-siècle Germany", Volume 84, Number 4
2011
Rebecca Braun, University of Lancaster, UK
"1967-2007: The Gruppe 47 as a Cultural Heimat", Volume 83, Number 2